Simonetti said that the assailant wasn't alone and that two other men were present and "watched and smiled."

"It took me two minutes to realize what was happening and I screamed and they ran off," Simonetti said.On Wednesday, Nov. 16 a formal complaint was filed for forcible touching, a spokesman from the NYPD

Deputy Commissioner of Public Information confirmed.

The suspect slid his hands up and down the victim's body, police said.

There have been no arrests at this time and the investigation is ongoing.

Simonetti said that after she sat in her car to drive to her job she felt shocked and couldn't work out what had just happened to her.

She believes this happened because the suspect confused her scarf with a hijab.

"I am not Muslim. My ears were cold," Simonetti wrote in a Facebook post. "But, because they thought I was Muslim, they felt it was their duty to inform me that I can't wear a hijab 'no more.'"

"It's so ridiculous to me that this happened," she said. "I feel numb."